[Xerte] Re: Desktop Xerte 2.17 -- having trouble reading data from external script
Julian Tenney
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Tue Aug 7 15:45:44 BST 2012
Don't think so: if it works OK in preview, it still dealing with the timing.
Is it Flash Player security thing? PHP on the same domain as the rlo?
-----Original Message-----
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 07 August 2012 15:44
To: Xerte discussion list
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Desktop Xerte 2.17 -- having trouble reading data from external script
Timing issue?
On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Paul Swanson <Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com> wrote:
> Same thing.
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> Paul Swanson
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> Internal Business Systems Analyst
>
> Internal Business Intelligence
>
> Harland Financial Solutions
>
> (800) 274-7280 Ext. 2462
>
> Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
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> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 5:01 PM
> To: Xerte list
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Desktop Xerte 2.17 -- having trouble reading data from
> external script
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>
> What if it's on an actual web server?
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> ________________________________
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> From: Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 22:39:53 +0000
> Subject: [Xerte] Desktop Xerte 2.17 -- having trouble reading data from
> external script
>
> I'm have a devil of a time getting a Xerte app to read the response from a
> PHP script when run through a browser. It works fine in Preview mode, and I
> know the script is getting the login information and returning a string
> because in preview mode I receive and can display the correct response with
> info from my database. I also have the PHP database script email me the same
> string. This works beautifully in Preview mode, but when I copy my rlo and
> other published files to localhost and run it from there, Xerte prints
> 'undefined' for the rawData property returned from a sendAndLoadVars call.
> The database script still emails me the correct response.
>
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>
> Here's what I'm sending to my PHP authentication script (domain is defined
> in a login script, and the parent Page icon has an id of loginCheck):
>
> // real url
>
> URLString = domain + '/wbt/app/admin/authenticate.php';
>
>
>
> // pass values to external script
>
> loginVars = new LoadVars ();
>
> loginVars.action = 'authenticate';
>
> loginVars.login = username;
>
> loginVars.sku = sku;
>
>
>
> // send to login script
>
> loginCheck.sendAndLoadVars(URLString, loginVars);
>
>
>
> Following the above, I have an Interaction with an Event icon (eventName =
> onSendAndLoadVars, icon = loginCheck). Attached to the event is a script
> icon with:
>
> // initialize btnPath -- assume not authenticated
>
> btnPath = 1; // 1 is the fail path
>
> message = ''; // initialize message
>
> responseMessage = ''; // initialize response message
>
>
>
> rawStuff = loginCheck.rawData;
>
> loginInstructions.setText(loginCheck.rawData);
>
>
>
> //rawStuff = replace(rawStuff, '<sup>®</sup>', '');
>
> rawInfoArray = rawStuff.split('&'); // save string pairs into an array
>
>
>
> for (i = 0; i < rawInfoArray.length; i++) { // break pairs into smaller
> arrays and parse
>
>
>
> tempArray = rawInfoArray[i].split('='); // split on = sign
>
>
>
> switch (tempArray[0]) {
>
> case 'reg_id':
>
> sid = tempArray[1];
>
> btnPath = 0;
>
> break;
>
> case 'message':
>
> responseMessage = tempArray[1];
>
> break;
>
> }
>
>
>
> }
>
>
>
> debug('sid: ' + sid + '\nresponseMessage: ' + responseMessage);
>
> debug(loginCheck.rawData);
>
>
>
> // display appropriate response
>
> if (btnPath == 1) {
>
> message = '<p>Could not retrieve account from the database.</p><br /><p>'
> + responseMessage + '</p>';
>
> }
>
>
>
> I get all the expected debug info in Preview and login is successful. Debug
> response is:
>
> sid: 71
>
> responseMessage: User Found in Database<br/>
>
>
>
> reg_id=71&message=User Found in Database<br/>
>
>
>
> 0
>
>
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
>
>
> Paul Swanson
>
> Internal Business Systems Analyst
>
> Internal Business Intelligence
>
> Harland Financial Solutions
>
> (800) 274-7280 Ext. 2462
>
> Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
>
>
>
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